Archives in Category: Annoyances

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Harbinger of the Future

Posted on January 10, 2015

It was a sunny afternoon, so Earl and I decided to visit some of our favorite haunts – if you can really call Costco or Talbot’s a “haunt” – in South Bend. Of course, these trips always include a meal

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Embracing Social Media

Posted on October 28, 2014

My friends all know I’m one of the last holdouts for signing on to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the rest of the social crawl that’s constant on today’s cell phones, tablets, and other devices.

My friends have also shared their

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Spam

Posted on October 9, 2014

Every time I post a new blog I check for spam on the back end of my website. From October 6 to October 8, the time lapse between recent blogs, I received 4986 spam messages. And my spam filter alerted

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Customer Service

Posted on October 1, 2014

I am confused with the twenty-first century’s take on customer service. It seems to be an approach-avoidance kind of thing.

First, the approach. Nowadays if one has a face-to-face communication with a server or a clerk or a barista, there

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Christmas

Posted on August 27, 2014

In line with yesterday’s blog about pushing seasons ahead of themselves, I submit that Christmas is the ultimate event that comes too early to the party these days.

When I was a child, Christmas didn’t appear in newspapers or magazines

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Clocking In

Posted on August 21, 2014

I usually re-set all the clocks in our home twice a year, when we move into Daylight Savings Time and when we move out again. But I can’t wait.  The clocks have minds of their own, and I’m frustrated.

We

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It’s About Time

Posted on August 18, 2014

When my Mother died, I inherited her Seth Thomas clock; but it needed repair. So I put it in the hands of a local clock shop owner who assured me he could fix it.  After it was in his possession

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Losing Beethoven

Posted on July 19, 2014

I don’t know how it happened, but my Sirius radio channels are mixed up. Earl claims he had nothing to do with this.  They were fine on our Milwaukee trip last weekend, but somewhere between then and now a gremlin

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Power Failure

Posted on July 3, 2014

I have the distinction of having survived a four-day power outage last November and am currently surviving another as I write from a local café whose Internet is intact. It’s a dubious honor; but, for what it’s worth, I can

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Shame on Me

Posted on June 20, 2014

A year or so ago, Delta Airlines and I got into a major tiff; and I vowed I would never fly that airline again.  There have been opportunities since then, but I’ve kept my word. Because why would one want

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